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KNOX – Damn but it’s been a privilege to write this column for so long

April 9, 2023 // 6 Comments

LONG AGO, on my first day at the Times Colonist, I was toured around the building by an editor who cheerfully pointed out places where people had had sex. The cot in the [Continue]

KNOX – Seeking absolution on Email Debt Forgiveness Day

April 2, 2023 // 0 Comments

BACK IN THE BEFORE TIMES, in 2019, I wrote a column about a half-finished message that had been sitting in the drafts folder of my email for five years. The unsent message [Continue]

KNOX – In a city of single seniors, we can relate to Roger the marmot

March 26, 2023 // 0 Comments

WARM DAY, cherry blossoms blooming, we’re basking in the sun in front of The Empress when Roger elbows me in the ribs. “There’s Ed Bain,” he says, nodding toward the [Continue]

KNOX – Herring only live in memories of fishing from the Craigflower Bridge

March 19, 2023 // 0 Comments

IT USED TO GET chaotic on the old, narrow Craigflower Bridge. In the 1980s, the fishermen crowded the railing shoulder-to-shoulder, elbow-to-reel from one shore to the other, [Continue]

KNOX – When it comes to public art, everyone’s a critic

March 12, 2023 // 0 Comments

NOTHING GETS our knickers in a knot like public art. China can be accused of messing with our elections, Putin can mutter about nukes, and climate change can leave polar [Continue]

KNOX – Should we change the name of British Columbia?

February 26, 2023 // 3 Comments

HOW BRITISH is British Columbia? Not very. Or, at least, not as British as it used to be. The ties between B.C. and Blighty aren’t what they were, even in Victoria, once [Continue]

KNOX – Just in time for Family Day, the Rent-A-Relic

February 19, 2023 // 0 Comments

THE STRANGER on my porch appeared harmless enough when I peered through the peephole — maybe 85 years old, rain streaming from her big purple hat as she leaned on her [Continue]

KNOX – Why it now costs $21.50 for a cheeseburger and fries

February 12, 2023 // 0 Comments

WANT TO KNOW why your cheeseburger and fries cost $21.50? Dave Craggs just broke it down in a poster on the front door of Ferris’ Grill and Garden Patio: • Wages [Continue]

KNOX – A punk legend’s advice for new city councillors: be a sponge

January 29, 2023 // 0 Comments

PUNK LEGENDS D.O.A., fronted by the aging but still raging Joey Shithead, play the Victoria Event Centre this Saturday. On Tuesday, Coun. Joe Keithley will ponder [Continue]

KNOX – Empress reigns on haunted-hotel list thanks to Lizzie the chambermaid — among others

January 22, 2023 // 0 Comments

CHAMBERMAID LIZZIE McGRATH stepped onto the Empress Hotel fire escape to say her rosary, just as she did every night before retiring to her sixth-storey room. Alas, what [Continue]

KNOX – Resolutions: If at first you don’t succeed, why keep trying?

January 15, 2023 // 0 Comments

I WENT TO the wrong side of the strait for a Canucks game last week, my first since the players wore mullets. “Is Dennis Ververgaert still in the line-up?” I asked. No, [Continue]

KNOX – Money in, money out: What you’ll see in 2023

December 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

THE FUTURE, as demonstrated by A) the pandemic and B) the Canucks, can be wildly unpredictable. Sometimes, though, we know exactly what to expect, at least as it pertains to [Continue]

KNOX – No, a pet under the Christmas tree is not a good surprise

December 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

NO, DON’T SURPRISE anyone with a puppy for Christmas. A homemade gift certificate for a new pet, maybe. You could wrap it up with a leash or litter box. But an actual [Continue]

KNOX- 25 years later, I’m ready to forgive Martha for ruining Christmas

December 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

FOR THE RECORD, I no longer want Martha Stewart to die. Sure, I might have daydreamed about her catching a mild case of COVID, one that would – and here’s irony! – [Continue]